Sebastian Giovinco (56 Viewers)

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Tommy

Tommy

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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Giovinco: "If I was foreign..."[/FONT]
Sunday 13 September, 2009​
[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]Sebastian Giovinco launched a sideswipe at Juventus for keeping him on the bench. “If I was foreign, I’d play more often.”
[/FONT] [FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]The Under-21 international has barely featured for the Bianconeri this season, but impressed when he substituted the injured Diego in the 2-0 win over Lazio.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]“I thank everyone for the praise, but I have just one defect – I’m Italian,” he smiled with a large dollop of sarcasm.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]“If I was foreign, say from Brazil or Argentina, I’m sure I would play more often. Sometimes I 'regret' the fact I'm Italian.”
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]When asked if he regretted turning down opportunities to leave Juventus in the summer, Giovinco was adamant.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]“I play for the best club in the world, I said that and I stand by it. I made my choice and of course I hope to have more playing time.”
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]He could well get his chance on Tuesday against Bordeaux in the Champions League, as Diego is unlikely to feature due to that thigh injury.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]The former Werder Bremen man was stretchered off with a right thigh problem, the same area that already prompted a long lay-off last season.
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[FONT=Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular]More tests are needed today to determine the extent of the damage, but there are concerns Diego could be out for more than one match.[/FONT]
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V

V

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Well this was always gonna come. This is nothing to make a fuss over. Hopefully he'll deliver the goods now that Diego seems to be unavailable.
 
pavelnedy

pavelnedy

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Oct 26, 2008
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Blog: The Italian curse

As Sebastian Giovinco bemoans his Italian passport for lack of playing time, Susy Campanale re-casts him as Brazilian

“Sometimes I regret that I am Italian.” Sebastian Giovinco’s words are enough to make anyone from the peninsula weep tears of frustration. We can make as many blogs as we like about the way Serie A clubs treat young players and allow their homegrown talent to be poached by opportunistic overseas sides, but nobody has summed up the issue in a nutshell like 'The Atomic Ant.’

“If I was foreign, I think I would probably play more often. I have only one defect – I am Italian.” Have we come to this? A clearly talented trequartista who already has some Serie A experience and is a regular focus of the Under-21 side, yet can barely get a game in a club run by Ciro Ferrara, who was in charge of the Juventus youth sector. The Bianconeri rely more on their academy than any other top Italian side, so if Giovinco has no room here, what hope would he and his contemporaries have elsewhere?

Suddenly the problems over at Milan seem to come into sharp focus. Ronaldinho knows he is the pet project of President Silvio Berlusconi and anything he does – or more accurately doesn’t do – won’t keep him out of the starting XI. In selling Kaka and finding no decent competition, the club has effectively handed Dinho a licence to laze about. Sadly, if the Rossoneri had bought Giovinco this summer, he would still be on the bench watching an overpaid, under motivated and overrated Brazilian wander aimlessly round a small patch of turf. I would say wander around the pitch, but to be perfectly honest, that would be giving his work ethic too much credit.

Instead of pushing Amauri to gain Italian citizenship – which he only did after Brazil made it clear they weren’t interested – why can’t we make more of the players who are actually from the peninsula? Even Davide Santon and Mario Balotelli have disappeared from the Inter line-up.

Worse still is the tale of Claudio Della Penna, a Roma wide man called up for the Under-20 World Cup despite not playing any club football. He is too old for the Primavera squad and considered too young for the Giallorossi, so trains without ever stepping on to the field or experiencing a match situation. Would he be in the same situation if his name was Della Penha and he hailed from Sao Paolo?
 
Stevie

Stevie

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Mar 30, 2003
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Yeah its a sad story but at the end of the day im not feeling sorry for any professional footballers. Giovinco gets to work at a club like Juve were he is worshiped and plays with players like Buffon and Del Piero everyday and he'l get paid millions for it if anything they should feel sorry for us fans :D
 
Suns

Suns

Release clause?
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May 22, 2009
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We are going to lose this guy and he is going be be a world class player at another team, mark my words. We are stupid for even playing Trezeguet instead of Giovinco.
 
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